Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Games With Virtual Reality in Intellectual Disabilities

ABC Foundation (FUABC)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Intellectual Disability

Treatments: Device: MoviLetrando; Device: MoveHero

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03033797

54172416.6.0000.0082

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Games using motion capture from webcam have become increasingly popular. A population that lacks much stimulus in the teaching-learning process has under-explored the benefits of this kind of games: The Intellectually Disabled. The aim of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of games with virtual reality in the total reaction time. Method: A convenience sample of 165 Intellectually Disabled participants will have their performance measured using a virtual reality game. The intervention is to play two different games twice, in two sessions with an interval of, at least, seven days between the sessions. Participants will be randomized between two raters, both master students.

Enrollment: 165 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All the children that uses to go the institution where the data collection will be realised (APAE).

Exclusion criteria

• Those who decline to participate
• Those who are not present in the two days of evaluation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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165 participants in 2 patient groups

MoviLetrando-MoveHero

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the children will play first two different levels of the game MoviLetrando (2 minutes each) and, after the game MoveHero, more 2 minutes

Treatment:

Device: MoviLetrando

Device: MoveHero

MoveHero-MoviLetrando

Experimental group

Description:

The other half of the children will play first 2 minutes of the game MoveHero and after, two different levels of the Game MoviLetrando, two minutes each.

Treatment:

Device: MoviLetrando

Device: MoveHero